Optimal Time-Slots

Brendan McKeague mckeague at iprimus.com.au
Thu Feb 23 08:28:34 PST 2006


In a two day open space events, are 1.5 hour 
time-slots preferable to 1 hour slots?
Let me know the 'right' answer please.... or maybe not!

Brendan


At 10:49 PM 23/02/2006, you wrote:
>Andrew:
>
>I’ve also seen, on two occasions, a breakout 
>group of about 100 (in a 5-600 person 
>event.)   These groups seem to get along just 
>fine even if it was a little hard for the 
>outliers to hear.  They both went for 1.5 hours 
>and a bit beyond with some, but not a lot, of attrition.
>
>We “know” that the ideal group discussion is 
>with 8-12 people (from the small group 
>evidence).  We know, from “Wisdom of Crowds” 
>that hundreds or thousands in aggregated 
>decision making do much better than the one 
>“expert” (given the evidence).  We really don’t 
>“know” how many people can be held together in 
>“collective focus” – consciously or 
>unconsciously.  100 in a break out?  2000 in a 
>OS event.  A country? ????  Being happy with 
>not-knowing allows for wonderful surprises.
>
>OSonOSinOZ sounds like it was a great stimulus for thinking!
>
>Larry
>
>Larry Peterson
>Associates in Transformation
>Toronto, ON, Canada
>416.653.4829
>
><mailto:larry at spiritedorg.com>larry at spiritedorg.com
>www.spiritedorg.com
>
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